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A2 (59x42cm) Poster . Fire in a London Underground train near Holland Park Station, 28 July 1958. Showing the third carriage, with no apparent fire damage, but with windows broken by passengers (this ...
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Photo Mug . Fire in a London Underground train near Holland Park Station, 28 July 1958. Showing the third carriage, with no apparent fire damage, but with windows broken by passengers (this occurred i...
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Jigsaw Puzzle . Fire in a London Underground train near Holland Park Station, 28 July 1958. Showing the third carriage, with no apparent fire damage, but with windows broken by passengers (this occurr...
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14 x12 (36x31 cm) Framed Artwork . Fire in a London Underground train near Holland Park Station, 28 July 1958. Showing the third carriage, with no apparent fire damage, but with windows broken by pass...
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The third part of the popular âWorld of Subwaysâ series puts you in the driver's cab on the iconic Circle Line of the London Underground. Authorised by an act of Parliament in 1853, the Circle Line be...
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Status: New - Amazing and Extraordinary London Underground Facts A reference to the history of the London Underground that reveals fresh insights into the history of the iconic transport system. It he...
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Details: Imagine life without the London Underground? The iconic Tube has been transporting Londoners around Britain?s capital for 150 years, and today 150,000 passengers use the Underground every hou...
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The Wonderground Map of London Town 1914 from the Old Book House, a reproduction of a brightly coloured pictorial poster commissioned to amuse Underground travellers as they waited for trains on the e...
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Official UK £2 coins for 2013. On 10 January 1863 the world's first underground railway opened in London. An engineering triumph, the 150th anniversary is being marked with not one but two new UK £2 c...
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The History of the London Underground is the definitive story of 'the tube' the world's first underground railway system an extraordinary and vast network that serves nearly a billion people each year...
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Imagine life without the London Underground...The iconic Tube has been transporting Londoners around Britain's capital for 150 years, and today 150,000 passengers use the Underground every hour. This ...
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A survey of electric railway development from the earliest days of the London Underground to modern electrified main line trains. Coverage includes chapters on signalling and communications, power sup...
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Status: New - Since the Victorian era, London's Underground has had played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners. In The Subterranean Railway, Christian Wolmar celebrates the visi...
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Concentrates on highlighting the Postcode Districts (the first part of the Postcode or Outward code) within Greater London. This uses the same base map as the London Main Roads map but the roads are l...
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Wartime On The Underground, Tube 150th Anniversary Jigsaw Puzzle.To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the first underground route from Paddington to Farringdon in 1863, our resident artist (Robin P...
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On 10 January1863 the London Underground opened, which was an engineering triumph and a world first. Reflecting the importance of the 150th anniversary not one but two new coins have been issued by th...
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Like her previous books, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life - and the conditions in which most people lived - so often left out of history b...
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Since the Victorian era, London's Underground has had played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners. In The Subterranean Railway, Christian Wolmar celebrates the vision and determi...
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Status: New - Ghosts traditionally make their presence felt in many ways, from unexplained footfalls and chills to odours and apparitions. This fascinating volume takes a look at some of the strange a...
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Victoria Station is the second in the Through Time series on London's famous railway termini. 115 million people pass through Victoria each year, making the station London's second busiest after Water...
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This fascinating selection of over 200 old photographs of the Royal Borough of Kensington shows a surprisingly varied range of activities and views from this unique area of London over a period of one...
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China Miéville's novel Iron Council is the tumultuous story of the "Perpetual Train". Born from monopolists' greed and dispatched to tame the western lands beyond New Crobuzon, the train is itself the...
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Most recent reviews from the community

AdvantagesConvenient method of transport, frequent trains, Easy to get around

DisadvantagesSignal Failures, Broken Trains and Heat!

...ines in more detail and give you some information regarding frequency of services, charges and ticket types.
&#9827; A Brief History of the London Underground &#9827;
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There is nobody alive now that would remember the day the first trains ran on the underground. Of course, during the 1800s these would have been steam trains. Howev...

DisadvantagesPrices for customers might seem high, also the planned engineering works also cause disruptions

..., but now I am privileged enough to get free concessionary travel paid by my local council.
London Underground
There is a Jubilee, Metropolitan, Bakerloo, Picaddily, Central, Hammersmith and City, District, Circle, Northern line. There are probably a few more, but all of these services I have used recently and in the past. Bakerloo line trains are interesting as the start and in in some...

...My personal expperiences with London Underground are fairly good. It is not a perfect service, the people tend to be nasty, and they keep raising the ticket price! BUT, without it, getting places would be a lot more difficult, and i suppose you get alot for the price, compared to trains to other places. Despite its problems, London Underground has a goodish service, or at least the only one...